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378 Tke Real,t! Btue Bool{ of Cq,Iiforniaable; where he
socialand coiiperative alueof the community s highand n a land that
is lacedand nterlacedby pavedhighways.In the suburban ommunities f
the Sacramento ectionone mayown a ranch home that rn'ill producea
net incomeequal to a goodsalary, enjoy all of the delights of
living on a fruit rarch and stillenjoy every city advantage and
convenience.l}ansportation lines of every description ndiate from
Sacra-mento's marketing center-transcontinental railways, electric
lines,highways vith their modem trucking facilities and river
transporta-tion urequaledfor volumeof businessby any inland
waterway inAmerica.For those nterested n large holdings,either for
subdivision ur-poses r farming,no sectionof the stateoffers
suchopportunities othin price and value.Lend is reasonably ricedand
has a verT high productivevalue.If you makea t p of inspection ou
will perceivenvestmentoppor-tunities-both agdculturally and
industdally-immediately beforeyou,It is sufficientmerely o
suggesthat the Secramentoection dl lprovea verJ' nterestingplace or
your carflrl nvestigation. Cor-res-pondences invited by the
Agdcultural Depar-tment f the Sacra-mento Chamberof Commerce nd
other Chambers of Commercethroughout he Sacramento alley who
makeevery endeavor o safe-guardthe investmentof the homeseeter nd
rendereveN aid to makece*ain his start provesa success nd not an
experiment,
Long Beach A Metropolisn the MakingROWTH of Long Beachs like a
story from ArabianNights. Ihestory of the development f Southem
California'swoncledulpleasure esort s oneof the most
amazingchroniclesn th his-tory of this country of wonderful
development.From a mere village
with a populationof only 2,200 n 1900, t hss lesDedn
twnty-fouryears to a metropolisof 135,000 ouls. Du ng the
sameperiod, tsbuilding permits have umped from 9100,000 year to
more than24,000,000, hile its baDk clearingshave ncreased rom
96,000,000in 1910 o $432,000,000n 1923. The assessedaluationhas
ncreasedfrom $12,000,000n 1906 o $116,000,000n 1923; postal
receiptsfrom $115,000n 1916 o $4?3,1?7n 1923. The rapid smlrth as
anindustrial center s shown by its 245 industriescapitalizedat
918,-000,000with 5,000employeesnd a monthly payroll of 9750,000.
nthe oil industry the amourt invested s about $40,000,000 'ith
500derricks and 215 producingwells. The production for 1923
was68.810.361arrels.All previousbuilding records or Long Beachwere
broken withthe report for the first three months of 1924. The
building recordnot only for March bu! for the first three months of
any previous yearwas brokenaccording o th figuresgivenout April
1st, The totat for
